Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Kowa Company Limited

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Kyoto University

Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Bridgestone Corporation

Hitachi Medical Corporation

Ishikawa, Tetsuya

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Tomohiro Suzuki

Kenji Kawazoe

Haruyuki Yanagi

Akira Kida

Hiroyuki Saito

Takashi Nojima

Osamu Asakura

Seiji Takahashi

Yuji Kanome

Masasumi Nagashima

Hiroyuki Inoue

Soichi Hiramatsu

Hitoshi Nakamura

Hideki Yamaguchi

Shinya Asano

Hideaki Kawakami

Akira Miyakawa

Takashi Abe

Minoru Teshigawara

Hiroaki Obikane

Takatoshi Nakano

Atsushi Saito

Yutaka Kano

Noriko Sato

Tetsuyo Ohashi

Tsuyoshi Saeki

Noboru Shimoyama

Seiji Ogasawara

Yasuyuki Takanaka

Masahiro Tamura

Seiichi Sato

Hiroshi Morimoto

Kazuteru Ishizuka

Masakazu Tsukuda

Hideki Yoshida

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Tetsuo Suzuki

Takashi Azuma

Hideaki Tanaka

Hiroki Shibata

Tetsuji Kurata

Takuya Hara

Keisuke Inoue

Takahiro Ochiya

Tomoya Ogawa

Fumikage Uchida

Jeffrey Hudson Scheurer, Ii

Yuji Tamura

Tomohiro Kawasaki

Tatsuya Furuta

Kentaro Onuma

Ryoei Ikari

Yoshiyuki Shimamura

Kazuya Iwata

Shota Sakurai

Yumi Mukoyama

Kei Okamura

Susumu Miyazaki

Kei Yuasa

Takeshi Sekino

Takahiro Kitamura

Nobuhiro Toki

Kazuma Takenaka

Natsuko Minegishi

Shunji Takemura

Fernando A Montijo

Hideki Kobayashi

Shin-ichiro Umemura

Takahiro Ito

Takenobu Kimura

Hajime Yamada

Kenji Shigeno

Naoki Tajima

Masami Shiratsuchi

Atsushi Noda

Toshiaki Oda

Yukiyoshi Yamazaki

Hideo Sugimura

Hiroyuki Ishiwata

Michiharu Shoji

Masato Watanabe

Yasufumi Yahiro

Kanto Kurasawa

Takeshi Doi

Nobuo Okabe

Takeo Deushi

Yoshitaka Okamura

Yuichiro Suzuki

Mitsuteru Hirata

Hironori Waita

Naoki Noguchi

Yoshinari Takemura

Tsutomu Toma

Hiroyuki Kakishima

Yosuke Ishii

Takeshi Ohshima

Yoshio Takahashi

An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records an image on a recording medium, a discharge unit configured to discharge the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit, a first conveying path for conveying the recording medium from the recording unit to the discharge unit, a heating unit configured to heat the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and disposed on the first conveying path, and a second conveying path configured to branch off from the first conveying path at a branching portion between the heating unit and the discharge unit and configured to merge with the first conveying path between the recording unit and a stacking unit on the first conveying path.

Image recording apparatus with heating of recording medium on which recording has been performed and with branched conveying path

A current measurement device includes: four or more triaxial magnetic sensors arranged to have predefined positional relationships such that magnetism-sensing directions thereof are parallel to each other; and a calculator configured to calculate currents flowing through a pair of conductors to be measured, which are arranged in proximity to each other, based on detection results of the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors and the positional relationships between the four or more triaxial magnetic sensors, the currents flowing in mutually opposite directions.

Current measurement device for measuring currents flowing in mutually opposite directions

A power transmission device is provided including: a base, provided with a pair of left and right drive pulleys; an intermediate member, rotatably supported by the base about a first axis; and a driven member, rotatably supported by the intermediate member about a second axis. A pair of left wires wound in opposite directions are fixed to the left drive pulley and the driven member. A pair of right wires wound in opposite directions to each other are fixed to the right drive pulley and the driven member. By the drive pulleys, when the driven member is rotated in the same direction about the second axis, torque in opposite directions about the first axis is applied to the driven member, and when the driven member is rotated in opposite directions about the second axis, torque in the same direction about the first axis is applied to the driven member.

Power transmission device

Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image carrier, an exposure device, a developing device that supplies a developer to form a toner image, and a hardware processor that controls the image carrier, the exposure device, and the developing device. The image forming apparatus further includes a fume prevention plate that covers a part of an internal space of the developing device where the developing roller is disposed and the developer is stored and that prevents the developer from scattering outside from the internal space, a suction duct, and an air suction device. One end of the suction duct is connected to the internal space and another end of the suction duct is connected to the air suction device. The fume prevention plate includes a movable portion. A position of the movable portion can be changed between a first position and a second position different from the first position.

Image forming apparatus having developing device with air suction device

An image recording apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a recording medium is stacked; a recording portion for recording an image on the recording medium; a heating portion for heating the recording medium recorded by the recording portion; a discharge portion for discharging the recording medium recorded by the recording portion; a first path for conveying the recording medium in order of the stacking portion, the recording portion, the heating portion, and the discharge portion; a second path branching off from the first path between the recording portion and the heating portion, and merging with the first path downstream of the heating portion; and a third path for connecting the second path and a part of the first path between the stacking portion and the recording portion, and inverting a recording surface of the recording medium.

Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus includes a first path for conveying a recording medium in order of a stacking portion on which the recording medium is stacked, a recording portion for recording an image on the recording medium, a heating portion for heating the image, and a discharge portion for discharging the recording medium; a second path branching off from the first path at a first branch part between the recording portion and the heating portion, and for discharging the recording medium to the discharge portion without passing through the heating portion; and a third path branching off from the first path at a second branch part between the recording portion and the first branch part, and for conveying the recording medium, the recording surface of which is inverted, toward a location between the stacking portion and the recording portion in the first path.

A current measuring device () includes two triaxial magnetic sensors () that are arranged with a prescribed gap between the two triaxial magnetic sensors () such that magnetic-sensing directions of the two triaxial magnetic sensors () are parallel to each other, and a calculator configured to calculate a current (I) flowing in a measurement-object conductor (MC) based on detection results from the two triaxial magnetic sensors () and a gap between the two triaxial magnetic sensors ().

Current measuring device, current measuring method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An optical sheet of the present invention includes a specific wavelength absorption layer that contains a polycarbonate as a main material and a light absorbing agent that absorbs light of a specific wavelength out of light in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 740 nm, in which the polycarbonate has a viscosity average molecular weight Mv of 20,000 to 30,000. In addition, the specific wavelength absorption layer further includes an ultraviolet absorbing agent that absorbs light in a wavelength range of 100 nm to 420 nm.

Optical sheet and optical component

A material defect detection device that detects a material defect in a predetermined region of metallic equipment using a magnetic field distribution in the predetermined region measured by a magnetic sensor array including a plurality of magnetic sensors, the material defect detection device including: a processor that calculates a density distribution of magnetic dipoles in the predetermined region based on the magnetic field distribution and calculates a depth distribution of material defect in the predetermined region based on the density distribution of the magnetic dipoles.

Material defect detection device, material defect detection system, material defect detection method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

An optical sheet of the present invention is an optical sheet that has flexibility and is used in a curved state of being curved in one direction, and includes a polarized layerthat polarizes incident light and a specific wavelength absorption layer provided on a curved concave side from the polarized layerand containing a resin material and a light absorbing agent that absorbs light in a specific wavelength range out of light in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 740 nm. In addition, the resin material is preferably a polycarbonate having a viscosity average molecular weight Mv of 20,000 to 30,000.

An inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head configured to perform print operation, the print head having an ejection opening surface on which a plurality of ejection openings for ejecting ink are arrayed along an array direction, and a moving unit configured to move the print head between a printing position, at which the print operation is performed, and a standby position, at which the print operation is not performed. The moving unit moves the print head between the printing position and the standby position by performing rotational movement, in which the print head is rotated around a rotation axis that is parallel to the array direction, and linear movement, in which the print head is moved linearly.

Inkjet printing apparatus

A link mechanism () has a first main link () and a second main link (), which are coupled by a joint (). The link mechanism () includes: a pivot bar () which has one end pivotably attached at a position in the second main link (), the position opposing the joint (), along a plane that is orthogonal to a rotating shaft of the joint (), and which extends toward the joint () from the one end; a slider () provided on the pivot bar () slidably along the pivot bar (); a moving mechanism () which has one end coupled to the joint () and the other end coupled to the slider () to move the slider (); and elastic members () which are connected to the pivot bar () and the second main link () to urge the pivot bar () toward a neutral position.

Link mechanism

An inkjet printing apparatus includes a stacking unit, a print head having an ejection opening surface located vertically above the stacking unit, and a platen that supports a back side of a print medium at an angle greater than 40&#xb0; and less than 50&#xb0; with respect to a horizontal direction. A discharging unit is located vertically above the print head, and a print medium subjected to printing by the print head is discharged onto the discharging unit. A conveying unit conveys a print medium, subjected to printing by the print head, vertically upward toward the discharging unit. In addition, the ejection opening surface faces the platen in a case in which the inkjet printing apparatus is in a printing state, and faces downward with respect to a direction of gravity in a case in which the inkjet printing apparatus is in a standby state.

A control apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with an image forming apparatus capable of executing a print job; and a hardware processor that obtains, for each of the image forming apparatuses in communication with the communicator, a degree of variations in remaining endurance of each of a plurality of units included in the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor assigns a print job to the image forming apparatus having the smallest degree of variations.

Control apparatus for assigning a print job, image forming apparatus, image forming system, and program

An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms a toner image based on input image information by superposing toners of plural colors on a recording material; a fixer that fixes the toner image formed on the recording material; a toner amount calculator that calculates, from the input image information, an amount of toners to be superposed on the recording material; and a hardware processor that controls the image former to supply an assistance toner that assists melting of the toners used for forming the toner image based on the input image information by an amount corresponding to the calculated amount of toners.

Image forming apparatus and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program

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Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuya Ishikawa